Runner in 2012 'dirtiest race' gets 10-year ban

When British jock Lisa Dobriskey vanished 10th successful nan women's 1500m last astatine London 2012, she did not clasp back.

"I don't judge I'm competing connected a level playing field," she told nan BBC astatine nan time.

The title has been described arsenic nan dirtiest successful history, pinch six of nan first 9 finishers falling foul of anti-doping regulations, nan latest being Tatyana Tomashova.

The Russian middle-distance runner, now 49, was connected Tuesday stripped of nan metallic badge she won successful that event, arsenic good arsenic being banned from nan athletics for 10 years.

She was sanctioned aft testing affirmative successful 2021 for anabolic steroids successful re-tests of her out-of-competition samples from June 21, 2012 and July 17, 2012, nan Court of Arbitration for Sport said.

Two-time world champion Tomashova, who had besides received a doping prohibition successful 2008, primitively vanished 4th successful nan 1500m last but that was upgraded aft Turkish runners Asli Cakir Alptekin and Gamze Bulut mislaid their medals for doping.

Bahrain's Maryam Yusuf Jamal won nan golden medal, contempt crossing nan statement 3rd down Cakir Alptekin and Bulut.

Tomashova's reward intends Dobriskey will now beryllium elevated to a fifth-place decorativeness successful nan race.

In a 2016 interview,, external she recalled really difficult it had been to spot Cakir Alptekin observe her triumph astatine nan time.

"I stood location and saw her embark connected a thigh of honour and knew she'd cheated," she said.

"We were down to watch nan past time but that included nan 1500m badge ceremonial and I didn't want to beryllium there. I couldn't beryllium location erstwhile that was happening."

Ethiopian-born Swede Abeba Aregawi, who besides had an anti-doping usurpation successful 2016 but escaped a ban, only received her reallocated bronze badge successful a typical ceremonial astatine nan Paris Olympics past month.

That badge will now beryllium upgraded to silver.